Unit 2 -Friends

In Unit 2, children will be talking about friendship, how to be a good friend, and ways to resolve conflicts with friends. Through the story time books, children hear about the importance of being who you are, helping friends, enjoying special times together, and getting along. In addition to listening to stories, children will learn to idenify rhyming works and beginning letters and sounds in words, as they build vocabulary and comprehension skills. They will also participate in a variety of music, poetry, math, science, and art activities.
Theme Concepts:
-A friend is someone we like and want to spend time with. Friends like to do things together. They enjoy each other's company.
-We can have more than one good friend, and we might like to do some things with one friend and other things with other friends.
-Friends usually share with and help one another.
-Friends may have arguments and get mad at one another. Usually, friends work out their problems and continue to be friends.
-We can make new friends and also keep old friends.

Books This Week:
The Little Red Hen, Retold By Philemon Sturges

A Letter to Amy, By Ezra Jack Keats

Small Groups:
-Math- Students will develop counting skills while playing a dinosaur game.
-Science - Students will follow directions and make a real homemade pizza. They will engage in this multi-sensory activity while seeing, hearing, smelling feeling and tasting the pizza.
-Writing -Students will make a page for the Friendship class book. They will draw a picture of something they like to play with their friends.

Choice Time:
-Sensory Table- washing dishes with soapy water
-Writing- making stationary and sending letters to friends

- Math and manipulatives - stringing large beads
-Library- Books about friendship
-Easel - Painting pictures of pizza and decorating with "pizza toppings"

-Dramatic Play - Pizza party with friends!

-Rug - Role playing with poeple and doll houses

**Art table - We will begin learning about a new letter each week! This week we will learn about the letter "A". Students will make apple prints on the letter "A" and save the picture to create an alphabet book.** Please look around your house with your child to find something that starts with the letter "A." Send it in this week for show and tell!

Songs, Word Play, and Letters
5 Juicy Apples

Eentsy weentsy spider

If your name starts with...

Down by the Bay

Ten Little Fingers

Come on and Join into the game

Alphabet Action Song